Tube strikes during GCSE and A levels exams.

Ah okay that’s interesting.

I imagine there will be a solution - nothing like a crisis for developing resilience!

What stories??

Yes you're naive.

On strike days? No not reliably. They get so full at the start of the route that you can’t get on them and the roads become so busy it’s gridlocked.

I agree. Forgive me for being naive but are there no trains, buses, cars, ubers etc etc? I would have thought navigating London as a resident would he fairly simple.

It’s because of what in my previous post - a certain level of hypocrisy whereby everyone has to be seen as vehemently supporting the strikes until it has any effect on them. So those not affected are sticking up for the strikes and those who are have to admit they don’t support them.

I’ve never known a generation be so coddled

What about the doctors? Are they selfish twats for striking and increasing waiting times and even risking people’s lives? What about standard train drivers? Bin men in Birmingham?

So many people on here will argue til they are blue in the face about supporting strikes and how it’s selfish to do otherwise and that we have a duty to support them even though it’s hide. Sadly a lot of principles disappear when it is something that affects them or their children.

FWIW I don’t support strikes in general. But I have been shouted down on here for saying that so this thread is an eye opener.

Very surprised at the number of non-sympathetic posts here - a parenting forum. It’s been nearly 30 yrs since I did GCSEs and I can still remember what a stressful time it was, without taking travel
disruption into account. Wishing everyone who’s going to be helping their DC navigate this extra challenge next week all the best.

“Come and move millions of people a day, be responsible for their lives and safety, and keep a capital city moving”

Politics of envy

Most people would happily do the job! It's almost impossible to get the job because of the number of applications. It's mostly internal recruitment.

I support the majority of strikes. Drs, nurses, teachers, postal workers... But the tube strikes are just tone deaf. The sooner we move to driverless, the better.

Tube driver starts on £50+..…. just think about that. You can drive a car, so come and start a job at £50k

Not for the necessity of their job.

You go and do it then!

They are really well paid tbf

Behave, they are massively
overpaid for the level of skill involved. Their compensation is above some airline pilots!

in answer to OP, they are selfish twats and ought to be replaced with driverless tech. That won’t happen though because a Labour London mayor would never do anything to unionised jobs, so they’re allowed to hold the capital to ransom whenever they feel like it .

Oh well.

Maybe people will realise that these people do a hugely beneficial job, that is important and carries huge safety risks, and that’s why they’re striking for better pay.

Your niece has been told not to worry too much if she misses her exams? What a very privileged life she leads that this is not of grave concern

On tube strike days the nearest overground is rammed
the streets leading to it are gridlocked to even get to it to
buses are over crowded
if you live in zone 5 or 6 and need to get to zone 1 or 2 you need the underground

Last time I had to go into the office on a strike day, I got up an hour early & caught a bus three stops before the one I normally use. The bus filled up very quickly & long queues were left standing.

I ended up walking most of the 7 miles home afterwards.

Edited after reading @EmeraldRoulette’s post to add that I’m lucky that I’m capable of doing that. Also forgot to mention that once I got off the bus in the morning I had to walk the last 2 miles.

No thank you.

Oh my God
Nobody on this thread thought of that!!! And no, I did not consider walking several miles as it tends to be quite problematic with a spine injury, even if it's old now, 4 miles is about as much as I can manage.

On the wild off chance that people are reading and wondering how practical that is, if you live in an outer zone, the answer is not very. The only advantage I had was there were fewer people trying to get on the bus in to central London

On the way home, waiting till 10 pm was the only feasible thing

If I had continued being mostly office based, then I would have spent all of the evenings in the pub I suppose. But then a lot of people can't afford to do that.

Have the “just get a bus” commenters waited in a massive queue on strike days while bus after bus after bus goes by without stopping, because they’re already full? Because that’s what happens to me (living in zone 3) and I haven’t got the stress of an exam to get to.

Walk, cycle , drive, bus, overground train.

Annoying for sure but doable

Not the same though, is it. Tube drivers are massively overpaid. They are completely out of touch. It's just greedy.

Teachers strike because governments refuse to fund schools enough to actually do the job. They strike in the interests of the children.

Some children. And they will cause as much disruption as possible, that’s the point.